Agartala: Serious discontentment is brewing in interior tribal hamlets in Kalajhari hill range of Gandacherra and Amarpur subdivisions over the Tripura Government’s move to establish a wildlife reserve. Several tribal hamlets are located inside the forested areas where the proposed wild life reserve would come up.
The State Wildlife Advisory Board in its first meeting early this month, had approved a number of wildlife projects including setting up of a wildlife reserve at Kalajhari-Laxmipur-Dhalagari in Dhalai district and Mukhcherri and New Gomati village in South Tripura district.
Accordingly, more than 400 indigenous families residing inside the earmarked wildlife reserve were served eviction notices by the local administration for taking up the project.
Tribal people of Kalajhari, Laxmipur, Dhalagari, Mukhcherri and New Gomati village committees are at a loss after receiving the eviction notices. They are facing an uncertain future now, said Rabindra Debbarma, INPT general secretary on Saturday.
He said that eviction notices were served to those families who had earler been displaced in 1974 when Dumbur Hydro electric project was commissioned.
Around 50,000 indigenous families will be affected if the government moves ahead with the project, he said.
Strongly opposing the move, Debbarma urged the government to stop any eviction attempt in tribal hamlets at Gandacherra and Amarpur subdivisions.
If the government doesn’t stop the eviction process, the INPT will launch a massive agitation in these two subdivisions, he warned.
Tripura Janajati Jami Punuroddhar Committee (JJPC), a non-political wing of indigenous people also vehemently opposed the government’s move.
The panel has already announced its future course of action to prevent the eviction bid in Gandacherra and Amarpur subdivisions.
We will organize a public rally at Kalagari soon in protest against the move, said Hemanta Uchoi, secretary of JJPC. “We will call a general strike in Gandacherra subdivision if the government doesn’t stop the eviction bid”, he added.
Source: Assam Tribune
The State Wildlife Advisory Board in its first meeting early this month, had approved a number of wildlife projects including setting up of a wildlife reserve at Kalajhari-Laxmipur-Dhalagari in Dhalai district and Mukhcherri and New Gomati village in South Tripura district.
Accordingly, more than 400 indigenous families residing inside the earmarked wildlife reserve were served eviction notices by the local administration for taking up the project.
Tribal people of Kalajhari, Laxmipur, Dhalagari, Mukhcherri and New Gomati village committees are at a loss after receiving the eviction notices. They are facing an uncertain future now, said Rabindra Debbarma, INPT general secretary on Saturday.
He said that eviction notices were served to those families who had earler been displaced in 1974 when Dumbur Hydro electric project was commissioned.
Around 50,000 indigenous families will be affected if the government moves ahead with the project, he said.
Strongly opposing the move, Debbarma urged the government to stop any eviction attempt in tribal hamlets at Gandacherra and Amarpur subdivisions.
If the government doesn’t stop the eviction process, the INPT will launch a massive agitation in these two subdivisions, he warned.
Tripura Janajati Jami Punuroddhar Committee (JJPC), a non-political wing of indigenous people also vehemently opposed the government’s move.
The panel has already announced its future course of action to prevent the eviction bid in Gandacherra and Amarpur subdivisions.
We will organize a public rally at Kalagari soon in protest against the move, said Hemanta Uchoi, secretary of JJPC. “We will call a general strike in Gandacherra subdivision if the government doesn’t stop the eviction bid”, he added.
Source: Assam Tribune
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